Interdisciplinary Barthes

Convenors: Professor Diana Knight FBA, University of Nottingham and Professor Michael Sheringham FBA, University of Oxford

The writings of Roland Barthes (1915–1980) have provided multiple incitements to the creative crossing of disciplinary boundaries — between, for example, history, philosophy, literature, linguistics, semiology, sociology, music, film, painting and photography. By engaging with his own interdisciplinary texts, and with the concepts, figures and metaphors through which he opened up new critical pathways, speakers will assess the enduring stimulus Barthes offers to intellectually adventurous work across the human sciences — not least through posthumous publications and the newly accessible Roland Barthes Archive.